RFC: 8229469 JEP 386: Alpine Linux/x64 Port

[Alan Bateman]

On 04/09/2020 08:55, Aleksei Voitylov wrote:
> :
> Tests tools/launcher/Test7029048.java and
> tools/launcher/ExecutionEnvironment.java need to change behavior on
> systems that alter LD_LIBRARY_PATH (AIX and musl). The alternative we
> first considered was to detect the libc of the OS with ldd in the test
> and avoid WhiteBox dependency. This approach has a significant drawback:
> some distributions bundle glibc and OpenJDK and launch it on a
> musl-based Linux OS, so we really need to detect the libc the JDK was
> compiled for, not the default libc present in the OS. To avoid such
> problems all together it was decided to detect the libc flavor the JDK
> was compiled for through WhiteBox.
>
I really dislike the changes to the launcher tests and I don't think the 
WB API is the right place for this. I think we need to find something 
cleaner and maybe expose it as a method on jdk.test.lib.Platform.

-Alan